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The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife: Henry James's Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and Lady Wolseley, 1878-1913

Autor Henry James Editat de Alan G. James
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2012 – vârsta de la 22 ani

As his letters attest, for nearly forty years Henry James enjoyed a warm and gratifying friendship with Britain's foremost soldier of the last quarter of the nineteenth century and his wife. The Wolseleys were notable figures. Lord Wolseley, the field marshal who became Britain's commander in chief of the British army, was a national hero. Both a bibliophile and an author, Wolseley was described by Henry James to his brother William as an "excellent example of the cultivated British soldier." Lady Wolseley was also well-read, as well as stylish, strong-willed, and shrewd, and in Henry's view, a delightful correspondent in short, as the editor writes, "precisely the kind of woman James most admired."

In "The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife, " Alan James offers a collection of more than one hundred letters most of them published here for the first time that Henry James wrote to the Wolseleys, the majority to Lady Wolseley. Included are an overall introduction to the letters; separate introductory profiles of Lord and Lady Wolseley along with commentaries on the factors that drew James and the Wolseleys together; introductions to each of four sections of the letters, divided chronologically; and annotations throughout, identifying the notable men and women to whom James refers as well as comparing what James and the Wolseleys thought of them and their work.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813932354
ISBN-10: 0813932351
Pagini: 202
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: University of Virginia Press

Notă biografică

Christopher Ehret is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA and the author of An African Classical Age: Eastern and Southern Africa in World History, 1000 B.C. to A.D. 400 (Virginia).